Commitment for 2022-23

Reduce, reuse, recycle

We recently made Botanica at South Lodge a dairy free dining destination and will see the outcomes over the coming months. Based on the success of our Wasted Burger we’re now punching to make Botanica an entirely waste free restaurant!

We’re teeing up to eliminate all single use plastic from the Manor House Golf Club by May 2023. This would be the first single use plastic free golf course in the UKanother first for us.

As we spend a significant amount of time sprucing, decorating and refurbishing the hotels we’re moving to a sustainable paint supplier.

Diversity, equity and inclusion

We will be adopting a more friendly narrative to DEI and refer to ‘Belonging’. Belonging to the team, our family business, and our mission to use the business as a force for good.

One of the boldest steps we will take is to become accredited as a real Living Wage Employer.

We will continue to share our story and encourage our peers to join the B Corp community while each of our properties will be relentless in their pursuit to do business better.

We’re in conversations with Sedex who may be able to supercharge our supply chain through their platform.

Giving

We will look to nominate new local charities and continue our involvement with Hospitality Action and Protect Earth to support and drive our 2% commitment plus activities.

Carbon road map

We will continue on our mission to sequester more including a new six hectare vineyard with our neighbours Ridgeview Wine Estate as well as 1,300 new trees to expand the ancient woodland bordering South Lodge’s estate.

In the coming year we are working towards removing gas from all of our kitchens, swapping every single light bulb to LED bulbs, and will have concluded a Scope 3 calculation of every hotel and ancillary business.

We challenge ourselves to find better ways and more sustainable uses for any capital expenditure.

Since every conversation counts, the half million guests we meet each year will create quite an impact and will help reinforce our mission to make business a force for good.